Now home gardeners have an easy-to-grow bunching onion (also known as a green onion) that is an All-America Selections Winner. Warrior grows quickly and thus matures early, producing a very uniform crop of slender, crisp onion stalks that are easy to harvest and clean. Can’t get to your harvest? No worries as Warrior will hold up in the garden longer than similar varieties that were grown as comparisons in the trials. Warrior can be used raw to add texture, flavor, and color to all kinds of dishes or they are delicious grilled whole as part of a grilled vegetable platter or entrée accompaniment.
Sow in either spring or fall at about 2 seeds per inch. These tasty bunching onions can be picked and used green as scallions or grown to up to 1/2 inch in diameter. Can be grown in containers as an attractive ornamental edible.
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Here is another photo of Warrior and how I use them in the University of Tennessee Gardens in Jackson. This time in a container as height and a focal point. Almost looks like an agave!
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An edible ornamental. Who can eat such a beauty! Since ‘Warrior’ onion became a vegetable winner in 2016 there hasn’t been a year I haven’t used at least 50 in the gardens at the University of Tennessee Gardens in Jackson.
Unlike most all blue foliage annuals and perennials in the south, the blue color remains strong all summer long. Typically the wax that makes the blue color melts off in the heat but like a true warrior, ‘Warrior’ onion remains strong all season. It looks great when planted in the landscape as well as used as the “thriller” in a pot. In the landscape I particularly like it’s spikey blue foliage coming through the foliage and blooms of plants such as the AAS Winner series of Mega Bloom vinca. ‘Warrior’ onion remains. Warrior’ onion Is also drought tolerant.